Earlybird Bonus session

Embodied Relationship: Reciprocal Presence and Haptic Cognition as a Guide

This practice facilitates a re-connection with the nature we share, with the rest of the world. This experience acts as a guide and support for presence, as well as a way to recognize when and how we lose it. It strengthens the basis of our reality checking capacity – our ability to recognize the difference between the stories and conditioning we carry or project onto any ‘other’, and a reciprocal presence; not a one way relationship, but one where both sides are listening and talking. This is our own ‘natural therapy’ and is basic to our ability and willingness to evolve the understanding and expression of our purpose in the world and the way we act, live and breathe. Practically speaking, this process is not about right and wrong, but rather about informing our choices and understanding where we are. With Leo Peppas we will experience how much of our presence is defined by the way we relate through our senses, including touch and kinaesthesia (movement awareness). We can thereby learn to differentiate when we diminish this quality or ‘sense relatedness’ and instead look out at the world or others as objects, fixed and separate from us. Haptic cognition, our ability to understand and sense of knowing that derives from our exchange with the natural world, is a relational cognition – something we can only know through relating and not by ourselves. With the sense of unity that we re-discover through our communion with nature, we also develop a deep appreciation for its diversity, a quality at the base of a healthy community life that’s remarkably often missing in our society.